In the 70s and 80s I bought a lot of vinyl records from various shops around the city and, for some reason, I still have some of the plastic bags they came in. It seems that most of the old record shops had their own designs that they either kept up or changed over the years. Anyway, I photographed some of them and, if you think it's worth while, I'll post them as I work through the various ones. Meanwhile, here are a few that seem significant somehow.
Since this is my first shot at posting pictures since the site change, please excuse me if I get the settings wrong.
If there are any others you'd particularly like to see, I'll see if I can find copies.
Threshold is here because I'd seen it mentioned in other threads. I don't particularly remember it myself but it seemed to matter to a lot of others.
Reddingtons seems to be the one everybody remembers. I remember the regular "half price" sales at weekends and albums stamped "not for resale" as well as the seriously over-priced old stuff that never really seemed to change.
The original Virgin records on that little shop up by the law courts. I don't know how long it was actually there but it moved not long after I first found it. Either that or I just didn't get out that way too often.
OK so this is little more than an address but I put out a bunch of these old bags at a history exhibit around a year ago and this is the one people seem to remember. I seem to remember it as a source for american and prog. rock but I'm sure there was plenty of other stuff there because I have quite a few of these. It could be that it was because it was in the arcade below the civil service canteen in the years I worked for them.
